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Click on the advanced recovery methods link.
Click Use a system image you created earlier to recover your computer
When prompted, back up now
After user files have backed up, you will be asked to restart your computer
Click Restart
When asked whether you want the latest system image
Click Select a system image
Select an image from a date before your computer started acting up
click next
If you can format and repartition disks, do so and click next, otherwise just click next
Select all disks if you can repartition, and click OK.
Click Finish.
Click Yes.
Restart your computer when prompted after the restore completes.

Edit: I am off to bed. All the information you need to recover your computer to working condition is here assuming you have an image backup. If you do not have a backup image, and you do not want to spend money taking it to the store, there is still one more thing to try.

My computer and My Documents not opening.

Error Message When Opening Office DocumentsEvery time I try to open a Microsoft Office Standard 2010 document I get the message "Please Wait While Windows Configures Microsoft Office Standard" and it then displays a progress bar as it goes through its machinations. This never used to happen. It started when I foolishly tried to install an...

Microsoft Office

Opening word documents everything is encoded....well a co worker sent me an email with a document attached she couldn't open. I opened it and it was encoded gibberish, now everything I try to open looks like this ï‰7‹ø~f°/öy¸+ ˜Ä*ó
I am not sure what broke to try and fix it. I can't open any document it seems that one document broke every...

Microsoft Office

Opening documents in WORDUntil recently, when starting to type the name of a document, WORD always 'suggested' several options even before finishing typing name in full so I could select the appropriate one.
Now it does not do this and I have to enter the full name of a document to open it. Not much help if I am...

Microsoft Office

Adobe PDF is not opening documents with the proper font!For some reason, every PDF document that I'm viewing right now seems to have its fonts corrupted. The font seems corrupted and more jagged.
Here's a screenshot of a PDF created by MS Word using Arial and Times New Roman to illustrate the corruption.
http://i.imgur.com/0LNlE.jpg

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Office 2010 Read only when opening documentsHi Guys long time reader, first time poster.
This is a on and off thing, but when we open a document on a users personal drive (which nobody else has access too), it opens as read only and they cant make changes/save the file.
Selecting "notify" when the document is ready to be edited...